Egg-carrier



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

fi-ENRY A. CHAPMAN, OF: STRAXVBERRY POINT, IOXVA.

EGG-CARRIER.

SEECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,986, dated February 5, 1884.

Application filed July 14, 1883. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carriers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being, had to the accompanying drawings, which forma part of this specifica tion, and in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a part of my improved egg-carrierf Fig. 2 is a similar View from the under side of one of the plates. Fig. 3 is a top view of a corner of one of the plates before it is bent down and soldered, and Fig. i is a detail view of the re-enforcing corner.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to egg-carriers, and more particularly tothat class of carriers in which the eggs are placed in perforations in two plates placed over one another at a distance from one another, the perforations in each pair of plates fitting over the spaces between the perforations of the next pair of plates; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of the trays, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letters A indicate the several trays,which are formed by a plate, B, of sheet metal, the edges 0 of which are bent downward, the end of one of the edges being cut straight off at D in line with the line over which the other edge is bent the end E of which edge or flange is cut off diagonally, and bent over in line wit-h the line over which the former edge or flangeis bent, whereupon. the said triangular end is soldered upon the straight end of the other flange, thus forming a rectangular corner, the flanges being bent at right angles to the top plate. A small triangular plate, F, having upwardly-bent edges or flanges G upon its catheti, is fastened in each corner thus formed, being placed upon the edges of the corner of the flanges, solderingthe flanges upon the outer sides of the lower edges of flanges of the tray, re-enforcing thecorners, and pre venting the flanges of one tray from slipping "over the edges of the tray below. In this manner the trays may be placed one over the other, and the eggs are placed in one tray, fitting into the perforations, whereupon an other tray is placed over that tray, fitting with its perforations over the upper ends of the eggs in the tray below. Another tray is then placed over the former tray, filled with eggs, which are steadied in their position by a top tray, and so forth, the perforations of each pair of trays fitting over the spaces between:

pieces soldered upon the edges of the flanges at the corners of the tray, as and for the par pose shown and set forth. I

2. A tray for egg-carriers, consisting of a top plate having perforations for the reception of the. eggs, and downwardly-bent flanges, cut off at the ends, as described, to form overlapping ends, soldered together, and triangu-' lar plates having bent flanges upon their eatheti, and soldered by these flanges upon the outside of the edges of the flanges upon the top plate at the corners, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto aflixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

GEN BY A. CHAPMAN.

Witnesses:

ELISHA PETTIT, BENJAMIN P. Rnwson. 

